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Final hours tick down on Kraft bid for Cadbury

09.11.09
Cadbury investors, managers and staff were left on tenterhooks this morning as Kraft Foods took its hostile bid for the chocolate maker down to the wire ... more

Soaring sales at Cadbury put Kraft on the back foot

21.10.09
Cadbury bolstered its defence against a proposed £10.2 billion takeover by Kraft Foods by forecasting stellar results for the year ... more

Steward’s call for inquiry is a pure confection

06.10.09
Comedy lawsuit of the week comes from something called the Steward International Enhanced Index Fund, which is suing Cadbury’s top brass for daring not to embrace a (putative) bid from Kraft Foods ... more

Cowdery is no Quaker, but Montague has done his best

05.10.09
When I visited the office of Barclays chairman Marcus Agius recently, he proudly showed me a corridor, the walls of which were covered with portraits of the bank’s founders. Quakers. ... more

Panel orders Kraft to finalise bid for Cadbury

30.09.09
Kraft Foods was told it must finalise its bid for Cadbury within the next six weeks, or else walk away ... more

Kraft tries to keep bid panel at bay

22.09.09
Kraft moved today to try and head off the request that it should “put up or shut up” in its £10.2 billion bid for Cadbury ... more

Hopes of higher Kraft bid drive Cadbury rise

14.09.09
Cadbury shares are moving upwards as market-makers bet that suitor Kraft will soon make an improved takeover offer for the 185-year-old business... more

Cadbury’s and Kraft are as different as choc and cheese

08.09.09
Let's be clear about Kraft Foods: it is a global, rapacious and ruthless entity. It has zero interest in the well-being of Cadbury, certainly not its staff... more

Cadbury soars 40% as Kraft sparks hopes of bid battle

07.09.09
Cadbury shares soared more than 40% today as investors bet that a £10 billion takeover bid from US food giant Kraft would succeed ... more

Comment: Gloves off as the mega-deal returns

07.09.09
There was a buzz in the City this morning, the like of which we’ve not experienced for the best part of two years. That was when Alliance UniChem, led by Stefano Pessina, paid £12 billion for Boots ... more

Head of Mitchells & Butlers quits after £500m hedge loss

21.05.09
Tim Clarke has quit as chief executive of pub chain Mitchells & Butlers after losses on a disastrous hedging strategy spiralled towards £500 million ... more

Cold winter warms up British Gas performance

11.05.09
British Gas admitted that last week's 10% cut in household electricity prices only came after the business had had an excellent winter from the nation turning up the heating to beat the cold... more

Ask that woman to the corporate party

06.05.09
One of the more fashionable theories about the credit crunch is that it wouldn't have happened if women had been in charge... more

Footsie grandees aim for more women on the board

05.05.09
Sir Philip Hampton of Sainsbury’s, Sir John Bond of Vodafone and Roger Carr of Centrica are just three of the high-profile chairmen gathering at an event in the City to put wannabe female board directors through their paces ... more

Let’s see how many days these superchairs clock up

09.04.09
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Pay bonanza of the City's part-time string-pullers

07.04.09
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Centrica £2bn cash call for Energy buy

31.10.08
British Gas owner Centrica is to tap shareholders for £2.2 billion to fund the acquisition of a 25% stake in British Energy... more

Turmoil is no block to sales boom at Cadbury

30.07.08
Cadbury has reported a 'strong first half' despite rising cost of milk and cocoa... more

City bosses call for UK to back Lisbon Treaty

18.06.08
Grandees said treaty was "a positive step for business and for Britain" ahead of a House of Lords debate... more

Tchenguiz winner as M&B takes Reit route

20.05.08
Pubs group Mitchells & Butlers bows to pressure from property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz, agreeing to put his representatives on the board and shake-up the business in line with his wishes... more

Chairmen's pay on rocket fuel - and not just at BP

15.04.08
Fat-cat pay, or executive remuneration as they call it in the posher papers, is so last century... more

Who's in and who's out?

25.02.08
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Carr adds Cadbury to his line-up of chairs

19.02.08
Businessman Roger Carr has taken on the top job at chocolate maker Cadbury - making him chair of three top companies at the same time.... more

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